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Show The Hike to Rainbow Bridge 263 group sponsored by Brigham Young University who, among other places, spent time in India. The group were affected by the usual dysentery, but Alice came down with a more serious problem-a ruptured appendix. After an emergency operation she lived but a day. Her body was returned to Utah and she was buried in Blanding. Madelyn and Harold attended the funeral, for which Harold gave a talk, using the last chapter of Proverbs as a description of Alice: A virtuous woman she earned her husband's trust, worked without ceasing to help her husband and family, stretched out her hands to the poor, was wise in her counsel, her works merited praise, and her children and husband rose up to call her blessed. (Proverbs 31: 10-31) Harold also mentioned and eulogized the Taj Mahal, a monu ment to a wife, as the last view of India that Alice and Leland had seen together. Madelyn wrote that "I was of proud Harold."6 THE HIKE TO RAINBOW BRIDGE By Madelyn Stewart Silver We sat down glumly beside the rollicking little stream. Hurt ached in my heart; mad anger flared through my mind; fury surged through my blood, giving me desire and strength and a lightness of body almost forgotten in these past years. Since we had left camp we had not spoken to each other, but Harold had reached his hand to help me cross every little bunch of rocks, every tiny stream. "You speak to me as if! were a little boy," he had said. All I had been trying to do was to hurry things up a bit." The other members of the party had long since begun the six-mile climb. But with meticulous care Harold had to roll up all the bedding, packed every piece of clothing, covered everything with the tar paulins. "It just might rain." he said, "and what would we do if everything got wet?" Rain, in a month-long drouth! But I had gone along with him. He was so deliberate; I could see a hundred short-cuts where he saw none. I had rather taken command to hurry things up a bit, working like a dog myself in the ankle-deep dust. What if I had told him to tuck things in |
